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But he had earned it.
I can say that for him.
When I saw him that first time - however, his personal
condition will not quite bear description here.
You can read it in the Lives of the Saints.
[ All the details concerning the hermits, in this
chapter, are from Lecky - but greatly modified. This
book not being a history but only a tale, the majority
of the historian's frank details were too strong for
reproduction in it.